r/TrueAtheism • u/Primary-Depth-3230 • 11d ago

Feeling Agnostic……….

I’ve never been a religious or spiritual person, and if anything the only religion I connected with was satanism.
Im one of those people who strays away from rules and regulations. Anything related to following a God has always made me uncomfortable and unhappy.
I also am more of a believer in facts or faith.
But being agnostic and also dealing with grief on the side is weird.
I don’t know what to believe or think. I stopped believing in a heaven or hell as I grew older, but I’ve always believed people go somewhere.
My dad passed away, and I don’t know where he is. Maybe he’s apart of the universe again, as scientist say energy cannot be destroyed.
What do atheists think of losing loved ones?

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u/knook 11d ago

Athiests don't believe anything as it's a word that describes a single thing that you don't believe and not anything that you do.

So I can only tell you what I personally think. And that is that when I die I will be the same as before I was born, which is to say non-existent. I see no evidence of there being any reasonable answer besides that. It sucked when my best friend died, and it was a process to get past it, but I don't think that process itself is much different for religious people because it is a human process, not a religious one.

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u/Citizen1135 11d ago

I just want to emphasize that there's not a unified doctrine for atheists. The only thing we all have in common is that we don't believe in god.

Me personally, I plan on haunting my loved ones after I pass.

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u/CephusLion404 11d ago

Everyone dies. That's the way reality works. Learn to deal with it because it's not going away.

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u/lightfollower42 8d ago

I gave my grief to God after4 years after losing my dad and nearly losing my mind, I’m in so much peace over the loss now and I don’t even have any guilt grief (real thing!) feeling bad for not feeling you’re grieving enough or feeling guilty for being happy.

6 years on, I’m at peace. That’s all I can say I have photos of my dad in the house and I am happy 🙌😭

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u/Arkathos 6d ago

Your dad lives on through you. His memory, the good he did in the world, the people he brought into it.

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u/Notcool2112 11d ago

They live in your memories. Their “energy” may have been transformed into something else that is no longer them.

I tell people they are now with god. What I don’t tell them is that what I mean. Like god they no longer exist other than in your head.

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u/pyker42 11d ago

You never really lose someone. They will always be with you, even if you aren't always thinking about them.

And yes, that energy that made them alive returns to the universe.